After a half century in limbo, the federal government says it will scrap plans to build an airport on thousands of acres in Pickering, Ont., and instead look to transfer the land to Parks Canada.
A decades-long battle over whether to build an airport on land in the northern portion of Pickering, Ont. appears to have finally come to an end. On Monday, the Trudeau government announced that ...
In 1972, the federal government acquired 75 square kilometres of land here for a planned Pickering Airport. In the past decade, about half of the land was transferred to Parks Canada to create and ...
After more than 50 years, the federal government is abandoning a plan to use a contentious plot of land in north Pickering for a future airport, and intends to use it to expand Rouge National ...